Hebrew release = free grace; Jer 34; gifts irrevocable

eld fast, being yoked under a punishing law. And since in last seasons of the age (and the Sabbath has also been set for us as a type of this) Emmanuel has shone upon, then indeed the spirit of slavery has been taken away, and having brought forward nothing at all unto ransoming for the Master, they have been called by philanthropic grace unto freedom, and unto the glory of the adoption; for those having believed have been justified not from works of law according to the Scriptures, but from faith. And this I say is the ‘He will go away free for a gift.’ But, ‘Whenever,’ he says, ‘you send him out free from you, you will not send him out empty; you will provision him a provision from your sheep, from your grain, and from your winepress.’ Do you see clearly the power of the mystery according to Christ shining out in these things? for we have been ransomed, and the Savior of us all has let us go free, for a gift. For not from works of justice which we did, but according to his much mercy, according as it has been written, we have partaken of such supernatural mildness; and letting us go free—that is, having freed from sins, and having adorned with the grace of the adoption—he has added himself for us as a good provision, as a blameless victim, and as a sheep led unto slaughter through us, having also gifted the partaking of the life-giving blessing—that is, of his holy flesh and blood. This, I think, is the needing to be provisioned from the sheep, and from grain and wine, for those having been called unto freedom from the Master’s mildness in a seventh season—that is, in the intelligible Sabbath; yet these things the law. And since for the Jews having fallen back unto carelessness it did not seem very much to keep the things having been commanded, God was accusing those having chosen to do this. For it has been written that also ‘A word of the Lord became toward Jeremiah, saying: Thus said the Lord the God of Israel, saying: I covenanted a covenant toward your fathers on the day on which I took them out from Egypt’s land from a house of slavery saying: Whenever six years are filled, you will send out your Hebrew brother who will be sold to you, and he will work for you six years, and you will send him out free; and they did not hear me, and they did not lean their ear; and they turned today to do the straight before my eyes, to call a release each of his neighbor; and they completed a covenant according to my face in the house upon which my name has been called upon it; and you turned, and you profaned my covenant, to turn back each his servant, and each his maidservant, whom you sent out free in their soul, to be for you unto servants and maidservants.’ Do you see how he does not endure the types being set aside, or rather the truth itself being insolently treated as still in shadows? ‘For the gifts and the calling of God are without regret,’ according as it has been written. Yet the Jews, dragging back those once having been let go, and bringing them under again under the yokes of slavery, have not kept the without-regret, and have struck against because of this